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Soon after Donald Trump took office, people with ties to the Chinese state poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into his re-election bid to get close to and potentially influence the new president. Big investigation by @BrianSpegele
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@BrianSpegele After Trump won in 2016 David Tian Wang, a China-born green card holder, was approached by China's L.A. consulate. He registered a lobbying firm, donated $150K for Trump's reelection and argued U.S. deployments to the South China Sea were a waste of money.
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@BrianSpegele Wang attended an invite-only RNC leadership meeting in 2017. One of the men he brought along was a researcher for China’s Ministry of Science and Technology focused on national security and tech diplomacy. The RNC has now barred them from future events.
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@BrianSpegele Another of the men at the RNC meeting was Tang Ben, a naturalized U.S. citizen who donated $300K to Trump and met the president at his hotel in D.C. in 2017. “If the Chinese people wish to overtake the U.S., they must study the U.S.,” Tang later posted.
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@BrianSpegele Tang brought with him to Trump's D.C. fundraiser Wu Guangsheng, chairman of a state-backed Chinese maker of military communications equipment who had just attended a Beijing meeting with the then-head of China's United Front Work Department. Here they are.
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@BrianSpegele The story will be on the front page of Wednesday's Wall Street Journal.
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Why is Germany so torn between the U.S. and China? Germany exports three times as much to China as France and Italy combined. “Germany wants to do business with China, we want more market access, that’s our main priority.”
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@TomFairless @shashamimi @bopanc Volkswagen is in a league of its own. Its CEO has praised China’s handling of the coronavirus, refers to China as his company’s “second home” and is pouring $2 billion into the country. “I can’t imagine Volkswagen without China.”
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@TomFairless @shashamimi @bopanc In a rare distinction among Western countries, Germany has a mostly balanced trade relationship with China. Germany’s engineering giants supplied the factory equipment and infrastructure that made China the world’s top manufacturer
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In Oval Office interview, Donald Trump says China may have let the coronavirus spread globally in order to destabilize competing economies. “There’s a chance it was intentional…I call it the plague. The plague that was sent by China."
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So you're saying China let the virus spread to extend the economic pain? Trump: “Correct. They’re saying, man, we’re in a mess. The United States is killing us. Don’t forget, my economy…was blowing them away. And the reason is the tariffs”
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The president said he had no intelligence to support that claim, only an internal sense. He said there was a better chance it was a mistake. “I don’t think they would do that…But you never know. But it has had an impact.”
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In early February, a Japanese glass supplier got an unexpected message from a Chinese government trade group: How can we help? As China feels coronavirus pain, it's reaching out to foreign companies to keep the investment dollars flowing in.
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@Kubota_Yoko Ford Motor, which had trouble procuring car lamps produced from its supplier in Hubei province, received special clearances from the Chinese government to quickly procure parts from the locked-down province.
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